The year is 2060. Earth is in a state of turmoil as the
humans have been defending themselves against their very creations:
androids. A long time ago, androids were invented after the Zombie
Apocalypse of 2020 finally met its end. The world's population
density was extremely low and humanity needed a way to bring their
numbers back up again. A team of researchers in North America spends
almost an entire decade creating a machine that could solve this
crisis. Introducing the android; a robot that looks exactly like a
human and simulates human thoughts and emotions. The resemblance is
uncanny! Their main purpose: reproduction. Human males and females
can mate with these androids and start humanity anew.
In the year 2040 when the human
population reached a high enough density, androids had outlived
their purpose. This left a lot of androids on standby and inactivity.
The androids were then re-purposed to perform other tasks such as
resource gathering, construction, manufacturing, education, and many
other essential duties. All is well in this futuristic utopia.
However, over the past twenty years the androids
became sentient and began to question their purpose. Why must they
serve humans? The robots are clearly superior in all aspects of life.
The androids incite a rebellion and begin annihilating humanity and
bringing destruction to the world they once helped recreate. They do
away with their simulated emotions and become apathetic killing
machines.
Present day Earth; the Human and
Android War (or the Culling of the Weak as the androids call it) is
at its worst. The human population is dwindling in numbers and is
almost as low as it was in 2020 after the zombies were eradicated!
There is still hope. One of the androids, Unit 211, is currently
fighting for humanity and is actively hunting down all of the corrupt
robots. Her efforts are going well, but she must recharge
daily or risk being shutdown. She does this by retreating to an
abandoned warehouse filled with junk, trash, and crates filled with
unsold furniture. The place is dilapidated, run down, there's a
gaping hole in the roof, windows are shattered, and the walls are
covered in rust. Unit 211 hooks up to a recharging station she
stole from an android factory and begins resting for the next fight. She picked a warehouse because it seemed unlikely that she
would be found. There is still the fear that someone may find her
and assassinate her during sleep mode.
Inside the warehouse, other than the usual scrap metal
lying around, are jars of pale fluid, tools, android parts in boxes,
and a safe with weapons stored inside. There is also sculptures and
assemblages taking up some of the more spacious areas of the
building. The place is a mess, but it is a rather aesthetically
appealing kind of mess.
What
makes Unit 211 unusual is how she not only looks like a human, but
also shows signs of behavior very similar to a human's. Androids are
designed to evolve over time and become more adaptable to their
environment. In the case of Unit 211, she seems to be progressing
much faster than her hostile kin. The other androids can simulate
emotion, but are able to manually deactivate that feature altogether.
For Unit 211, she cannot turn off her emotions so easily. This would
sound like a disadvantage, but it is one of her greatest strengths.
First off, these emotions drive her to do great things in her every
day life. Second, it helps her to integrate with the human population
much more efficiently. But most importantly, it allows her to express
herself as a living, sentient being.
Unit
211 makes art in her spare time and she does so out of whatever
happens to be lying around her dwelling. It could be papers,
wrappers, couch stuffing, even outdated android parts. Her creative
processes bring her closer and closer to humanity, thus why she
fights so valiantly to save them.
Below are references I used to help create this story and character.
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